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| Location: Next to the big yellow shoe in Kiddieland |
| Opened: 1963 |
| Manufactured by: Allan Herschell Company |
| Ride Model: P.T. Boats |
| Carriers: 7 Boats |
| Capacity: 2 seats per boat. Total of 14 people per ride. |
| Height Restrictions: Riders over 46" in height may not ride. |
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This is a simple ride. You have an oval water trough built into the ground with some boats that travel around the water in a circle for a couple of minutes. Not exactly your best thrill ride, but for a little kid who love boats, they will love the ride.
When the ride was originally built, the boats were wood. The lead boat was a small powered tug boat. In 1992 Lagoon replaced the old wooden boats with new fiberglass ones. It was then that the tug boat was replaced with the new boring lead boat.
Regardless of the boring lead boat, this ride still remains one of the more popular Kiddieland rides. Little kids enjoy riding around the water trough and ringing the bell provided on each boat. What a better way for your kid to spend their day than driving everyone around the ride nuts with constant ringing bells.
Lagoon's Baby Boats is slightly unique. Most PT boats were built raised, but Lagoon had theirs put into the ground. It wasn't always in the ground. When Lagoon first installed the ride, they used the traditional raised design. It's unknown by Lagoon Is Fun when Lagoon put the ride into the ground like it is today.
In 2000 Lagoon added a kneeling pad to the cement edge of the ride. Although this made it a little nicer for the operators to kneel down with, most still had sore knees by the end of the day. In 2008 the ride was completely repainted. Each boat was given a color, a name, and a little flag. The water trough was painted blue. The new look made a drastic change to a ride that didn't have much of a visual appeal anymore and really improved the ride.